'I'll take a TV personality over a community organizer'

By Ben Smith

04/10/10 01:31 PM EDT

Jonathan and I wrote today about how Republicans are growing comfortable with a high-profile role for Sarah Palin that doesn't involve being President of the United States, and Senator David Vitter, in the course of denouncing President Obama at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference this morning, seemed to capture that sentiment.

"I'll take a TV personality over a community organizer any day," he said, in an apparent reference to the language Democrats sometimes use to dismiss Palin.